From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: New approach to grouping/backend/marking - good or bad idea?
Date: 07 Nov 1999 02:17:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bt979k2b.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k8nzgk9n.fsf@raven.localnet>
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> For example, I would like to use a "todo" keyword, and attach that to
> articles that I need to do something about. Then I could enter a
> group and do a "/ k todo" or whatever, and see all those articles.
This is possible now with the Keywords header, extra headers and `/ x'.
It's a bit of cumbersome to set up, though.
> I've also been toying with a the idea of a much more radical variation
> on the same theme. What if the mailer stored every message *only
> once* in a guaranteed uniquely named file (across the entire backend),
> and then used keywords (instead of physical placement in the
> filesystem) to indicate groups?
This sounds like a job for nnsql. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-07 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-04 0:42 Rob Browning
1999-11-04 10:09 ` Colin Marquardt
1999-11-04 16:22 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-11-05 22:41 ` Rob Browning
1999-11-05 23:07 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-11-06 0:44 ` Russ Allbery
1999-11-07 1:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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